Yellow Champion

Yellow Line Champion Deathstorm Build

By Araphorn – Updated for Gundabad, U31.1

Trait Trees

I use 2 different Trait Trees for Yellow Line, depending on the fight/scenario.

This Tree I use for pretty much all Instances/Raids. This gives me the Max AoE DPS, and great Single-target DPS utility from Red Line.

Next, my second Tree is more for Landscape or power-leveling someone in Warg Pens/Sword Halls, as I trait for Killing Spree, which restores 10% morale on every mob killing blow.

Use these Trees depending on what you are doing.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

60 Trait Points Build for Beginners

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. I use mostly Offensive options, but if need be, some of them can be switched to more Defensive options as well, depending on the type of fight. More explained down below.

Here are the Virtues which go along with the Stat Goals:

1. Zeal (Great for Mastery and Critical Rating)
2. Valour (Great for Mastery, Finesse and Critical Rating)
3. Confidence (Great for Critical Rating and Finesse)
4. Wit (Great for Finesse, Mastery and Critical Rating)
5. Loyalty (Great for Vitality and survival)
   • If you need extra Survivability, swap Wit with Fidelity

If you don’t have these virtues, here are some alternatives:

• Fidelity (Great for Vitality + Tactical Mit)
• Tolerance (Gives great amount of Tactical Mit, decent Physical Mit and Resistance)
• Innocence (Gives great amount of Physical Mit, decent Tactical Mit Mit and Resistance)

Legendary Items

With U30.3, disabled Weapon Swapping in combat and the loss of Crit Multiplier legacy, left Champs in an awkward position. However, they did get a big +30% base damage boost, so they are more or less at the same DPS level they were before the LI revamp.

One thing to note is that 2-Handers weapons are now taking the edge over a Dual-wield setup (even for AoE), as all skills have a much higher tooltip with a 2-Hander equipped, and the Off-hands are way below the DPS rating at the moment. This might change, but for now a 2-Hander Weapon is superior in Yellow-line.

*Note 1: The way I have setup new Legendary Items is in a way that the Class Item can be shared with Red Line, reducing some resources load. All the general Traceries which are used in both Red and Yellow Line are placed on the Class Item, and Line Specific Traceries are placed on the Weapon.

*Note 2: Please use Word of Craft Traceries as per Stat Goals. Generally Critical Rating is better to take from Word of Crafts, as you get more passive Mastery from Primary Stats. So Critical Rating from WoC will be better in the long-term.

2-Hander Weapon

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Ox
Word of Power	Area Effect Attack Criticals
Word of Power	Area Effect Attack Damage
Word of Mastery	Brutal Strikes Damage
Word of Mastery	Exchange of Blows Melee Damage
Word of Mastery	Ferocious Strikes Damage
Word of Mastery	Fury of Blades Damage
Word of Mastery	Great Cleave Duration
Word of Mastery	Raging Blades Damage
Word of Craft	Ascendent Lightning
Word of Craft	Ascendent Lightning
Word of Craft	Empowered Destruction (To be unlocked with Gundabad)

Champion’s Rune (Class Item)

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Ox
Word of Power	Area Effect Target Count
Word of Power	Single Target Attack Criticals
Word of Power	Single Target Attack Damage
Word of Mastery	Battle Frenzy Cooldown
Word of Mastery	Blade Wall Damage
Word of Mastery	Fight On Critical Chance Buff
Word of Mastery	Horn of Gondor Damage & Mitigation Debuff
Word of Mastery	Rend Armour Reduction & Bleed Damage
Word of Mastery	Swift Strike/Blade Damage & Power Cost
Word of Craft	Ascendent Lightning
Word of Craft	Ascendent Lightning
Word of Craft	Empowered Destruction (To be unlocked with Gundabad)

*Note: No Yellow-line specific traceries are used in this Rune (Class Item), thus making this Item usable in Red-line also, if you play both Specs.

Rotation

Here is what I do on Yellow Champ:

1. Weapon Swapping in Combat is disabled as of U30.3. So this rotation will consist of using only 1 Weapon.
2. Your rotation should always start with these pre-buffs:
   • Keep Fervour at max before entering combat.
   • Use Controlled Burn.
3. Start your rotation with Wild Attack to get your 5% crit chance up. If it doesn’t crit, don’t stop, just keep rotation going, use Wild Attack again soon to get that buff up.
4. After WA, use Rend to debuff your target(s) and for an AoE bleed+debuff on all targets.
5. Now that your WA buff is up, and your target(s) are debuffed, now it’s time to start using spenders. (If your tank has lined up all the mobs, use buff cooldowns now such as Great Cleave -> True Heroics -> Exchange of Blows.
6. Start with Horn of Gondor – Battle Frenzy – Fury of Blades – Swift Blade – Raging Blades-Clobber – Blade Wall. These are your spenders and big hitters.
7. When those are on Cooldown, keep Wild Attack crit chance up (It lasts for 10s and it helps if you can track it via a plugin)
8. Now that all your AoE skills are on cooldown, and you have refreshed your WA buff, you can do some Single-target hits with Brutal/Fero (only if Blade-wall and all other big AoEs are on cooldown).
9. Once that is done, refresh Rend repeat the AoE rotation again (number 6 on the list here)
10. Mostly, Yellow Champ is all about keeping all your Spenders (Raging/Fury and Blade Wall as much as possible on cooldown, and managing your buffs simultaneously, this can take some practice but you will eventually get the hang of it. Cut Raging Blades Animation with Clobber always, if the encounter doesn’t require interrupts.

Consumables

There are the consumables I use on Champ:

1. Crafted 10s Horn. These are invaluable for Instances/Raids, your group will always ask for these, so keep them with you. (You can only use ones which say ‘Most effective against targets of your level or lower.’)
2. Fervour pots. These are great for the instant 5 Fervour and Dev Magnitude for big hits. I typically use them only while I’m heavily buffed or if there is an Oathbreakers on the boss.

This is the Food I use:

Updated as of U31.1.

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